Miller is married to Stephen Miller, one of Trump's top advisers. In response to the positive test, the White House medical office has embarked on a program of contact tracing for the individual, an official told NBC. "Vice President Pence is negative for Covid-19 and is therefore not asymptomatic".

Trump blamed China for the pandemic and said that Beijing could have stopped it from spreading across the world. The tests are flawless but something could happen between a test where it's good and then something happens and all of a sudden. His aides in the West Wing remove them before walking inside.

The president, according to media reports, erupted in anger upon learning of the valet's coronavirus infection and told staff he did not feel enough was being done to protect him from COVID-19. Katie Miller was not on the plane and had not been scheduled to be on the trip.

The US president had also halted the nation's funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) after claiming that it is severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus. "But we have to open it up safely, so we will be adding two or three additional members to the task force", he said at a White House event recognising National Nurses Day.

The US White House. The administration has also directed regular deep cleaning of all work spaces. Last month it began administering rapid Covid-19 tests to all those in close proximity to the president, with staffers being tested about once a week.

"We've already put in a few protocols that we're looking at, obviously, to make sure that the president and his immediate staff stay safe. It's not fair to Abraham Lincoln, a great president", he continued.

"It certainly is about my husband, or you would have quoted other people in the group", she told Faulkner, after the veteran show host quoted from an opinion piece he'd written for The Washington Post Wednesday.

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